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Wind farm 'too noisy'
Residents complaining the nearby Te Rere Hau Wind Farm is too noisy have been vindicated, with the Environment Court ruling the farm owner breached its resource consent.
Noise predictions supplied by NZ Windfarms were wrong.
July 5, 2012
by Mathew Grocott
in Dominion Post
Residents complaining the nearby Te Rere Hau Wind Farm is too noisy have been vindicated, with the Environment Court ruling the farm owner breached its resource consent.
Noise predictions supplied by NZ Windfarms were wrong.
In a decision released yesterday, the court ruled the noise effects on residents were "considerably greater" than those predicted in the resource consent application.
This put the 97-turbine wind farm on the Tararua Range in breach of its resource consent to such an extent that Palmerston North City Council could now choose to review its noise consent conditions.
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